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Festy vs Null - What's the difference?

festy | null |

As nouns the difference between festy and null

is that festy is a festival while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

As an adjective festy

is (australia|slang) disgusting.

festy

English

Etymology 1

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (Australia, slang) Disgusting.
  • * {{quote-newsgroup
    • , title=I'm able to admit it when I fuck up , group=aus.politics , author=Brian S , date=September 10 , year=1997 , passage=God knows I've had my fair share of festy flatmates who started out all sweetness and light... :) citation
  • * {{quote-newsgroup
    • , title=Wheres My Bangles Track!!!? , group=aus.culture.gothic , author=Hobbes , date=June 14 , year=2000 , passage=I wish I went to Blue Monday, I wanna go back to Wall St, I miss Wall St damnit.  The sucken dancefloor, the space under the pin ball machine, the festy toilets, the railings, the venue. citation
  • * {{quote-newsgroup
    • , title=[MELB] Come live with me... , group=aus.culture.gothic , author=solitaire , date=August 28 , year=2000 , passage=So, the festy scrag is packing up and pissing off... citation
  • Very bad, dreadful.

    • Etymology 2

    From

    Noun

    (festies)
  • A festival.
  • * {{quote-newsgroup
    • , title=CHAOS ENGINE SPAMBLAST, 26/07/02 , group=alt.gothic.music , author=Lee H , date=July 26 , year=2002 , passage=Keeping that festy vibe going, we've just been promoted to headline act for the REBIRTH festival this weekend in Cardiff! citation

    null

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
  • Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
    • (Francis Bacon)
  • Something that has no force or meaning.
  • (computing) the ASCII or Unicode character (), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
  • (computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value.
    • Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
  • One of the beads in nulled work.
  • (statistics) null hypothesis

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having no validity, "null and void"
  • insignificant
  • * 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
    • In proportion as we descend the social scale our snobbishness fastens on to mere nothings which are perhaps no more null than the distinctions observed by the aristocracy, but, being more obscure, more peculiar to the individual, take us more by surprise.
  • absent or non-existent
  • (mathematics) of the null set
  • (mathematics) of or comprising a value of precisely zero
  • (genetics, of a mutation) causing a complete loss of gene function, amorphic.

    • Derived terms

    * nullity

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to nullify; to annul
    • (Milton)

    Related terms

    * annul

    See also

    * nil ----